France’s reappointed PM Lecornu calls for calm amid political chaos

Reappointed French prime minister Sebastien Lecornu speaks to journalists as he visits a police station in L’Hay-les-Roses, outside Paris (Martin Lelievre, Pool Photo via AP)

France’s newly reappointed prime minister has acknowledged there were not “a lot of candidates” for his job – and that he might not last long in the post given the country’s deep political divides.

Sebastien Lecornu, renamed by President Emmanuel Macron late on Friday after a week of political chaos, called for calm and for the support of political parties to produce a budget for the European Union’s number two economy before looming deadlines.